Everyman

Introduction Everyman and Dr . Faustus Both plays under analysis portray evolution of human spirit and self-identity , evolution of morality and values of the main characters . In ``Everyman ' and ``Dr Faustus ' the authors depict that knowledge and learning is an integral part of our life it is a driven force of progress or regress . Without new knowledge nothing could happen , neither good nor bad . Thesis Knowledge , its acceptance or rejection , determines the level of heroes evolution and transformations affecting their spiritual carriers . In both works knowledge (learning ) forces heroes to look for new ways and methods to change their life . In Dr Faustus , the main character comes to conclusion that traditional knowledge limits his understanding of the universe and starts to seek for another source of his spiritual development . He grasps knowledge with the help of a devil : ``This study fits a mercenary drudge / Who aims at nothing but external trash / Too servile and illiberal for me (Marlowe , 1997 . In ``Everyman ' the hero has nothing to do but addresses learning as the main source of knowledge . Everyman has to find a companion to join him , but everyone declines . Through learning the character understands the essence of life and friendship , virtues and values previously rejected . Knowledge says : ``Eueryman , herken what I saye / And receyue of hym in ony wyse / The holy sacrament and oyntement togyder (Anonymous , 1993 . The difference is that Dr Faustus is looking for magic and magical knowledge depriving morality and human values while Everyman ``examines ' the role of virtues and morality within the process of learning . In Dr Faust6us knowledge represents self-assertion of the intellectual while in Everyman knowledge unveils the personal and moral consequences of his revolt against death . Growth and metamorphosis are the unifying themes in the Dr Faustus out of which the fully reconstituted knowledge emerges with the suddenness of a crystallization at the end : ``Why , then , belike we must sin , and so consequently die / Ay , we must die an everlasting death . What doctrine call you this , Che sera , sera (Marlowe , 1997 . Everyman experience can be interpreted as the process of self-learning which helps him to understand human morality : ``Wyll ye breke promyse that is dette ' Strength . In fayth , I care not / Thou arte but a foole to complayne `` (Anonymous , 1993 . In both plays , knowledge supports spiritual careers of the characters and represent a determinant factor of personal development and degradation . Knowledge unveils real virtues to Everyman and determines the main stages of knowledge conception in Dr Faustus . In evolution of both characters knowledge is intrinsic to human experience that it belongs to , in which it is born and dies . Everyman shows that world is also capable at least of conceiving , if not of nurturing , and however abstract and theoretical that ideal may have been it is an image of human perfection that impassioned him . ``Knowlege " says : ``Eueryman , I wyll go with the and be thy gyde / In they moost nede to go by thy syde `` (Anonymous , 1993 . In Dr Faustus knowledge is the field... Comparison of "Everyman,” Othello and Dr. Faustus by Christopher Marlowe Guarded respect and fear of the exotic—the characterization of Indian culture and religion in Willkie Collins’ The Moonstone Willkie Collins 19th century detective novel The Moonstone depicts the cultural clash between English and Indian societies during the height of England’s imperial dominion over the Indian subcontinent. On one hand, the novel seems to depend upon English stereotypes of Indians to function. The story revolves around a mysterious unlucky stone that is given to Rachel Vendier when she comes of age. When the stone is stolen from her bedroom, some Indian ‘jugglers’ or conjurers in the area are blamed for the theft. They have a mesmeric power to divine what they want to know, as is illustrated in their first encounter with a small boy, which reveals the location of the moonstone: “the Indian took a bottle from his bosom, and poured out of it some black stuff, like ink, into the palm of the boy's hand. The Indian—first touching the boy's head, and making signs over it in the air—then said, `Look.' The boy became quite stiff, and stood like a statue, looking into the ink in the hollow of his hand…..then, after making more signs on the boy's head, blew on his forehead, and so woke him up with a s They are people driven only by religion, with an almost monomaniacal zeal, and lack human, three-dimensional characters. Although the novel seems on its surface to validate stereotypes of Indians, the characterization of the Brahmins in search of the stone as "conjurers"tm or "jugglers"tm by the English is hardly fair. Furthermore, adherents of Western religions, like the devout Miss Clack with her handing out of Christian tracts and her membership in the "Select Committee of the Mothers'-Small-Clothes-Conversion- Society," seem far less admirable, and are treated with merciless humor on the part of the author, rather than with the respect, awe and fear accorded to the Indians (Part II, Chapter 1, p. The Indians, for all of the strangeness and ferocity they display would never have come to English soil, had it not been for the fact that their culture and ancient faith had been impinged upon. However, there is one important footnote to this interpretation of the portrayal of Indians in The Moonstone. Never more were they to rest on their wanderings, from the day which witnessed their separation, to the day which witnessed their death" (Epilogue, p. Never more were they to look on each other's faces. India functions on terms incomprehensible to Englishmen, from which the English cannot protect themselves. In three separate directions, they were to set forth as pilgrims to the shrines of India. The god had commanded that their purification should be the purification by pilgrimage. Because of its use of multiple subjective and unreliable narrators, the reader is constantly aware that the characterizations of the Indians are seen through the biased view of the English. Ultimately, the stone belongs in its rightful place, and the Indians devoted to its recovery are meant to be admired by the reader: "They were Brahmins (he said) who had forfeited their caste in the service of the god. On that night, the three men were to part. Compare Between Everyman And Doctor Faustus Plays * Home Page» * Religion & Spirtuality» * Christianity Compare Between Everyman And Doctor Faustus Plays A play is a form of literature written by a playwright, usually consisting of scripted dialogue between characters, intended for theatrical performance rather than just reading, and I am going to introduce two plays , the first one is named Everyman play and the other one named Doctor Faustus. First, Everyman play is probably the finest and best known of the morality plays of the Middle Ages that have come down to us. Consensus of critical opinion agrees that it is a translation from the Dutch made probably toward the end of the 15th century. Its popularity in England of that day is attested to by the fact that it was printed four different times early in the 16th century. In this play The Lord God looks down on Everyman from on high. He sees that Everyman in his seeking for riches and pleasure has forgotten God and He is much displeased. He calls His messenger, Death, and bids him take to Everyman the message that he must go on a long journey; that he must prepare to make his accounting Is this Essay helpful' Join OPPapers to read more and access more than 350,000 just like it! get better grades before the Almighty God. Everyman first invites Fellowship to join him in the journey of Death, Fellowship promptly declines and hastens away then Everyman next bethinks himself of his kinsmen, when the kinsmen find, however, that it is for the journey from which there is no returning that Everyman desires companionship, they beg to be excused. At last he recalls his Good Deeds. She is so weak and helpless by means of Everyman's neglect that she cannot stand. Only after Everyman is taken to Confession and does penance for his sins does Good Deeds get strength enough to accompany him. Good Deeds and Knowledge advise him to take with him on the journey Discretion, Strength, and Beauty, and, as counsellors, his Five Senses. Everyman receives the Last Sacrament and sets out on his journey with these companions. But when he actually reaches the grave, Beauty makes haste to depart and is promptly followed by Strength. At last only Knowledge and Good Deeds remain by his side. Good Deeds...